PS Re: VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Beartooth Testbedder]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:46:19 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:28 -0500, Beartooth Testbedder wrote:
>> So, just now, I invoked Synaptic. It gives me a message saying :
>> 
>> You have 1 broken package on your system!
>> 
>> Use the "Broken" filter to locate it.
>> 
>> Filter? Filter??
> 
> Beartooth, I have watched this thread quite a while and by now dare to
> suggest that you consider actually reading the documentation of the
> programs you use, instead of asking the list for guidance with every
> baby step you make. You will make quicker progress this way.
> 
> E.g., Synaptic has this nice menu, "Help", which gives the introduction
> to filters in a link from the first help page. It will also teach you
> about managing repositories and other challenges you have run into.

<sigh> This is a classic case of the Fine Manual being written for
those who already know the topic, and just want to check details; and for
them it's an excellent thing that it should be that way. 

What Synaptic's help says about repositories tells me only that (very
oddly imnsho) Ubuntu considers things like CDs to be among them. It says
nothing of any use for what I'm trying to ask -- where to get repos to
upgrade with.

If you will read the rest of the post you're replying to, you'll see that
I did find what and where the filter was, and invoked it; I wrote down all
the details as I went along -- up to the point, several steps later, where
I don't know what to do next, precisely because I've loused it up once
already.

        Remember I had *started* by going out and finding what the
standard resources seemed to be telling me to use as repositories --
and installing them -- before I ever posted at all. Whereupon it
turned out that I had messed up repositories.

        Several of the first replies I got on this thread regretted
that I had not included enough information, such as verbatim error
messages.

As for the real question,

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ubuntu-704-feisty-fawn-to-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon.html

-- which I have from this list, not from inside Ubuntu -- tells me : 


> Use the Alt+F2 key combination to bring up the Run Application dialog,
> where you’ll want to enter the following command update-manager -c
> “-c” switch tells it to look for upgrades at all.

But that got me this : 

root at SblzUb:# update-manager -c
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 28, in ?
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 45, in ?
    from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display
root at SblzUb:#

-- which is Greek to me. 

So I ran whatever search function is behind the magnifying glass icon.
(Right clicking on it does not offer "Properties" -- so I don't know what
command it fronts for.)

That got me 29 hits in the Filesystem, not *one* of which is identified as
an executable (though several are scripts.

Do you really want *this* much detail??

I did think to try btth at SblzUb:~$ sudo update-manager -c

That got me a bunch of gibberish, but also launched something with an
Upgrade button. To 6.10, not to 7. And again, it does not identify what
CLI choice it fronts for.

I tried it. It says it will take nearly an hour and a half over broadband
-- and I have to close everything first. *And* it will only get me to 6.10

There has to be a better way. That way may be obvious to you, but it's not
to me, and it sure isn't anywhere obvious in the Synaptic table of
contents -- which I can't get back to now, because this other thing is
open...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : F8, C5.1, U6.06;
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.